{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I say to him, “Sir, listen to me for a moment.” “Say\r\nwhat you wish,” says he. “Man, sir,” say I, “is eager to\r\nkeep the commandments of God, and there is no one who\r\ndoes not ask of the Lord that strength may be given him for\r\nthese commandments, and that he may be subject to them;\r\nbut the devil is hard, and holds sway over them.” “He cannot,”\r\nsays he, “hold sway over the servants of God, who with all\r\ntheir heart place their hopes in Him. The devil can wrestle\r\nagainst these, overthrow them he cannot. If, then, ye resist\r\nhim, he will be conquered, and flee in disgrace from you.\r\nAs many, therefore,” says he, “as are empty, fear the devil,\r\nas possessing power. When a man has filled very suitable\r\njars with good wine, and a few among those jars are left\r\nempty,<a id=\"r1687\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1687\"><sup>[1687]</sup></a> then he comes to the jars, and does not look at the\r\nfull jars, for he knows that they are full; but he looks at the\r\nempty, being afraid lest they have become sour. For empty\r\njars quickly become sour, and the goodness of the wine is\r\ngone. So also the devil goes to all the servants of God to\r\ntry them. As many, then, as are full in the faith, resist him\r\nstrongly, and he withdraws from them, having no way by\r\nwhich he might enter them. He goes, then, to the empty,\r\nand finding a way of entrance into them, he produces in them\r\nwhatever he wishes, and they become his servants.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT TWELFTH. On the twofold desire. The commandments of God can be kept, and believers ought not to fear the devil."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-713"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e49215e9bc0ffe8faa3243df37cb1da171dca81816eab20cb307b4e929141d63","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1687","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1687","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1687\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1687\">1687</a>. </span><i>Empty.</i> Half full.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1687","text_sha256":"31f499ecb8d55a98b497d85c1ad2df8334517bfcb342f26ccbdf6f109d5ae176","verified":false,"work_id":null}